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fananta | 5 years ago | on: Metaplane: β€œIs this dashboard broken again?”

(Reposting because it got deleted)

This is pretty neat. I like the positioning of a monitoring service for your data.

As someone who isn't a data engineer: How did you guys come across this problem? Is this something people have often?

fananta | 10 years ago | on: HN Office Hours with Michael Seibel and Aaron Harris

Absolutely, but would charging them for a (technically) trivial feature be self-limiting to our growth?

Another question: Would be worthwhile to apply to YC with a product of this nature?

This was super helpful. Thank you for taking the time Michael.

fananta | 10 years ago | on: HN Office Hours with Michael Seibel and Aaron Harris

Ex. A user wants to try it out but paying for a custom domain scares them. They stick to a free subdomain, but never really promote it since it conflicts with their own branding.

Admittedly you're making a good point here that users _would_ get more value this way through increased branding.

fananta | 10 years ago | on: HN Office Hours with Michael Seibel and Aaron Harris

Users won't be able to use the product for what it's intended value is (better feedback and communication) if they're turned away so early.

Better put, a custom domain isn't part of the value we add, it's just a gateway to realize the value. Should we be charging for something that's not really tied to the value we provide?

fananta | 10 years ago | on: HN Office Hours with Michael Seibel and Aaron Harris

Hi Michael + Aaron,

We're building a smarter way to share product updates (https://productmap.co).

So far we've received a great amount of interest (waitlist) and have users already integrated that are coming back over and over.

The next steps would be to build out some of the feature requests as it's fairly early right now. One of those requests is having custom domains and users are happy to pay $10-$20/mo for it.

The vision for ProductMap is much larger though -- to tackle the fragmented way companies handle communication and feedback with their customers.

Do you think charging for custom domains would be self-limiting in nature? It's a fairly trivial thing to offer for free.

Thank you in advance! (and meeting with Yuri when he's in Toronto this weekend.)

fananta | 10 years ago | on: Show HN: ProductMap – A change log as a service

We built ProductMap to have a place to tell users about new features, updates, and product announcements.

Down the road we'll be adding things like voting, user feedback, and automatically posting to social media.

Happy to hear feedback!

fananta | 10 years ago | on: Ask HN: Feedback on my startup

Thanks :) I think Jira is more for managing the sdlc and an internal tool.

The focus here would be to have an intuitive interface for product updates and getting feedback on new product decisions.

fananta | 10 years ago | on: Ask HN: Feedback on my startup

Thank you! Super helpful feedback. I'll add a second like explaining the problem this solves (replacing release notes, changelogs, etc.)

I'm from Toronto :)

fananta | 10 years ago | on: Ask HN: Feedback on my startup

Thank you. That seems to be the feedback here (page isn't clear enough). Considering you run a service, how do you convey tell your users about new features in an engaging way?

fananta | 10 years ago | on: Ask HN: Feedback on my startup

I spoke with an admittedly small set of potential companies, both B2B and B2C. There's enough value in replacing the current way of communicating updates with customers which involves: newsletters, notifications, emails, blog posts, release notes, PDFs (B2B mainly), etc.

fananta | 10 years ago | on: Ask HN: Feedback on my startup

Excellent suggestions, thank you!

Just to note, really didn't use producthunt as an inspiration. Simply tried to make a "blob" with the letter P in it. Not sure how the colors are similar?

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